UPDATE: Bravo Confirms ‘Real Housewives Of NY’ Season 6 Back On

UPDATE, 5:09 PM: Most of them are back for sure. “The Real Housewives of New York City will return on Bravo for season six,” a Bravo spokesperson confirmed today. “At this point, the returning cast members include Ramona Singer, Sonja Morgan, Carole Radziwill and Heather Thomson.” Note that LuAnn de Lesseps and Aviva Drescher are not on that list. A source says that doesn’t rule it out that they are returning with the others, as I reported on May 11, but right now Singer, Morgan, Radziwill and Thomson are the only Housewives Bravo is confirming publicly.PREVIOUSLY, MAY 11 PM: The Real Housewives of New York salary stand off with Bravo is over. Ramona Singer, Carole Radziwill, LuAnn de Lesseps, Heather Thomson, Sonja Morgan and Aviva Drescher today all signed off on their contracts with the cable channel I’ve learned. Details are sketchy but it seems the Housewives took the modest pay increases Bravo was offering for season 6 rather than continue to hold out for big raises and risk getting booted off the Big Apple version of the multi-city reality franchise. The cable channel also threw in a few more contractual baubles like covering expenses for additional hair and make-up for the cast. The group capitulation comes after a week that had seen the castmates holding up production on the new season in the hopes that they could get big raises. The Housewives yesterday had asked Bravo to give them the weekend to decide if they were going to take the agreement the channel was offering. Looks like they made their mutual decision a bit quicker.

PREVIOUSLY, FRIDAY: When you think about it, they get paid to do little else but laugh, cry and most of all shout at one another. Yet the cast of The Real Housewives of New Yorkwant raises and now wish to call a time out in their salary battle with Bravo. I’ve learned that freshmen class Carole Radziwill, Aviva Drescher, Heather Thomson, as well as veteran seniors Ramona Singer, LuAnn de Lesseps, and Sonja Morgan, today asked the cable channel to give them the weekend to decide whether to sign the contracts offered. Radziwill even took to Twitter: “I still haven’t decided. Payscale is ridix + it irks me to be given ultimatums. Just ask my last 5 boyfriends.:)” The six women during these past few days of tense negotiations have stayed united in the face of Bravo‘s ‘are-you-in-or-out?’ deadline of today. The cast deliberately didn’t show up for what was supposed to be the beginning of Season 6 production earlier this week. Additionally they’ve told Bravo that none of them is signing until all of them are ready to do so. The six want raises. “They’re not asking for anything outrageous, just enough to cover their expenses for being on the show,” said one insider. But RHONY has been declining in ratings the past two seasons since housewife Bethenny Frankel left. Last week the Internet was abuzz with media claims that Singer and de Lesseps get paid around $500,000 a season, Morgan about $220,000, Drescher about $200,000, and Thomson $175,000. I’ve learned that Bravo now appears willing to wait a couple more days rather than recast immediately. Part of that tactic is the belief that the housewives might not stay united much longer. “Ultimately, some of them will do it, some of them won’t and Bravo can recast the show as is its right and move forward,” says a source.

47 Comments

How about a simple cancellation of this filth and garbage of a show? Come up with new material Bravo and stop rehashing this same nonsense you’ve been doing for quite some time now.

egolite • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

I agree. We can do without one more “Housewives” show. In fact, cancel them all.

Celene • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

As a watcher of these shows, I couldn’t agree with you more. Even I wish they would just go away. I don’t know why they’re not embarrassed but I guess exhibitionists never are.

Rachel M. • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

Totally agree. Bravo’s so-called reality TV shows are not reality. They pay these desperate people to be idiots in front of a camera. Is there a website to push for cancellation. I guess everyone has dreams and hopes for stardom, and Bravo promises to give them that. Novelty has worn off. I vote: cancel them all.

Ian • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

You do realize you’re not forced to watch, right?

Oprah's Bunion • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

Pay these women. It may be filth, but it brings in the ratings.

rundontwalk • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

Actually, it doesn’t. Ratings are down 20%. These bitches didn’t deliver last season – what makes them think they’re worth more money? And where do they think they’re going to go?

Talie • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

The only franchise that brings in the big ratings is Atlanta… the rest all do around 2 million or less. NY isn’t the lowest rated though (that’s Miami) and because it’s in NY, it always garners lots of attention. Bravo was never going to cancel.

Ian • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

You’re wrong. The ratings are brilliant for the network.

Watching but regretting • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

there are hundreds of NY women who will bring in eyeballs. someone had to say NO sometime. and why not BRAVO?

Flipper Flop • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

The problem with RHO shows now is that they are just giant commercials for the latest product or service each of the ladies are doing. Just ask Bethenny how much valuation she made from doing the show. Just one big commercial for each housewife. They might have had a product before the show, but the show makes them much more than just salary.

serrona • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

All the HW series make for great TV as a view of regional subcultures with loads of drama, irony and conflict. That the NY cast does not “get it”…that they are a part of a successful franchise that has given them more than they will ever deserve, then re cast NY Bravo!

linda g • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

the housewives of ny were great in the beginning the new cast from the previous year did not cut it for me at all, I loved Sonia and Ramonia, and as far as Heather Carole and the other blonde goes they really brought nothing to the show except high opinions of themselves and boasting, boring, and as far as the cry baby frankel goes, come on, there are many people in this world that have parents who do not measure up, and they are poor without and self worth, she who was lucky at making good, and becoming famous could only whine and cry the poor me”s get rid of the Atlanta and the Miami if there seem to be too many of these same shows, but as far as the network is concerned all these networks are the same they copycat the same shows, reality, crime, and game shows what else is there?

Bill • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

Get rid of them all…And bring back Jill :)

Lindy • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

my brain hurts just thinking about that…..

mary • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

sorry Jill your fired.

momo • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

Eww

spababe • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

They ran like scared chicken shitz.

Skip • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

I find some entertainment in watching how the other half lives while the rest of us deal with recessions but think it’s time for BravoTV to replay these shows for free. If ABC, NBC, and CBS can stream their top shows online for free then BravoTV should too. We paid our cable bills to watch the first run. They are not worth an additional $1.99 each whether you have viewed them before or not.

SW • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

After doing this I bet Bravo fires them all next season. That’s if there is a next season
I agree this franchise is old. Cancel all of them and come up with something new

Bill's right! • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

Agree with Bill … bring Jill back, at least she made for great tv!

Mike • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

Good choice, ladies. Take the money and run. You are not talented enough to warrant a raise for socializing and backstabbing. I really wish America would turn its back on these vapid and worthless docudramas.

13 • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

Cancel the show. It’s been dead for years now. The ratings suck for all the promos they get

nikki • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

Bravo Needs a whole NEW set of New York Housewives … PLEASE ! Out with the OLD in with the NEW ! ;)

Maye • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

Cancel the show it sucks. Ramona has the biggest mouth and the ugliest google eyes EVER

Ck • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

I miss Jill Zarin.

GeorgeX • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

The countess is overpaid. Morgan should get more.

privy • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

I love these shows. Funny as Fk.

georgeisstupid • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

Morgan?? Clearly you don’t watch the show George. You must represent her, because clearly the without Luann the show is retardedly boring, she’s been around for it all.

Anonymous • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

They have bad teeth , bad skin and dry hair
ANDY come one recast – go younger and get women with some real money and careers
your interns are more interesting than this TIRED old drunken cast

georgerules • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

I happen to agree with George, Luann is a bore, Sonja is the best after Ramona , and on a Watch what Happens poll she was voted favorite housewife, Luann got like 5 %.

Nene • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

They need to recast OC – keep the new chick and Heather. Get rid of Tamara, Wretchen and Miss Piggy. For NYC, keep Carole and bring back Jill. Get rid of the rest.

Truthman • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

The ratings go down when Bravo focuses on the mean and stupid. No one is more mean or stupid than Ramona. The appeal of RHO… has been watching complex relationships between powerful women and their families and friends unfold in drama. Bravo mistakes loud and obnoxious for the dramatic. With Ramona cast this RHO is DOA.

Bravo Fan • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

I have been watching Housewives from the start and I agree that it has become BORING…….They are all getting rich for Bad acting,Bad fighting and Bad back stabbing……..BAAAAAD example for all women.
Come up with something new Bravo or I am switching the channel.
By the way Skinny Girl products are also BAAAAAD.

gail • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

I agree their are to many “real housewives” shows in the franchise. And while I found it entertaining for awhile, watching materialistic women fighting and pimping their products is just not interesting. There is just to much reality TV. I watch tv to escape from reality and chill. All the mean girl behavior just gets old. I’d much rather watch Mistresses or a reality show like Tia and Tamera that is not mean spirited. Who want to watch grown women have Botox, brag about their money (which most don’t really have), complain about stupid crap, etc. Bravo has some deceit other shows I like that are more fresh. Time to pull the plug on these real housewives.

Britt W • on May 13, 2013 5:10 pm

I actually enjoy all the unnecessary foolish drama that the RHO shows show & agree with others that it’s interesting to see how the “other half” live. I wouldn’t want them all canceled, but it makes me sick to see rich people complain about not making more money. There are so many people who are losing homes and jobs but these people feel entitled to more money and more incentives like hair & makeup. They get paid for being on the show, for doing appearances & events bc the show has made them popular, & they put out new products and/or services every week that brings them income. Quit being so greedy. I’m sure there are many other NY women who will get drunk, go on vacations, cause unnecessary drama, & make fools of themselves for others’ entertainment for less than these women are demanding. RHONY hasn’t been that great since Bethenny Frankel left anyway. Might as well change the cast up & I wasn’t sad to see Jill leave. All she did was talk about Bethenny, get mad at Ramona, boss people around with unwanted advice, & promote her fabric store anyway. After a few seasons it got old.